2023-09-22 ULMS Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

10m

Introductions

All

5m

COLD Update

John
David

• COLD agenda

• Recent statement opposed to banning books

• New proposals around transformative agreements

• Equitable access to textbooks

• Strategic planning

15m

ECAUG

All

• Conference debrief

  • Positive responses from those who attended

  • Focus was on ERM, resource sharing

    • discussions on west coast resource sharing

    • getting more CA libraries into pods

    • lots of troubleshooting session

  • Good to see people in person

    • 'new' CSU folks

    • counterparts UC, CCC, others

  • Considering locations for next year

• Making statewide engagement a goal?

10m

Rapido patron feedback

Chris

• Optional for services

• Survey would go to patrons in system-generated email when

  • request is fulfilled

  • request is cancelled

• through the Fall semester

• Chris can implement this for any campus

• will clarify in wording that we are focused on CSU+

45m

Committee Updates

Natalya
Keven
Kirstie
Gabriel
Nerissa
Chris (for Priscilla)

• Goals for the year

• Vice chair selection

• Task forces

• Other updates

(See below)

10m

Open forums

Nerissa

• Survey folks on what they want to see for open forums

  • more separate, more joint?

  • outside speakers (from UC, etc.) to see how they are doing things?

  • maybe not so presentation-focused?

• Christina will help work on this

5m

Data task force?

Keven

• Lots of data issues in Discovery from CDI, GTI & Alma

• also from ScholarWorks, other repos

  • IRWG interested in working with ULMS to address

• Christina will help on this

Analytics

• Goals

  • Developing an analytics management plan

    • things are getting cluttered, outdated, looking to clean-up

    • will bring to Steering for feedback

  • Rapido dashboard

    • need journal request report to see most freq. requested journal titles

    • general improvements

  • Monthly office hours

    • show and tell for exemplary reports

    • general troubleshooting

  • SUSHI

• Stacie Jensen (Sacramento) as Vice Chair

Discovery

• Goals

  • Data issues

    • Reconsider FRBR & dedup

    • impact of GTI & CDI on discovery experience

    • need to gather and report the problems

  • Mobile experience

    • advocate for improvements w/ ExL

• Ken Harold (Los Angeles) as Vice Chair

• VE Testers Team

  • led by Hannah Lee (Dominguez Hills)

• Looking to increase engagement with Resource Management

ERM

• Goals

  • Trying to coordinate work with other functional committees since so many issues cross groups

  • Licenses

    • Best practices and workflows

    • Rapid ILL lending note

  • Fixing up Confluence documentation

    • making it more topically focused

    • update the content as it changes frequently

• Monthly office hours

• Greta Heng (San Diego) as Vice Chair

Fulfillment

• Just getting started and haven’t met yet

• Goals will include general fulfillment survey

Resource Mgmnt.

• Goals

  • Secondary resource types

    • need to coordinate with the campuses, get feedback on what is needed

  • FRBR / dedup

  • Clean-up documentation

  • Perhaps best practice on outsourcing (e.g., Backstage)

• Kurt Hanselman (San Diego) as Vice Chair

• Linked Data Task Force

  • looking to update their approach

  • Wiki data focused on campus buildings

  • connecting with DAWG

• Inclusive Description Task Force

  • discuss the possibility of adding the genre facet to Primo (probably an RMFC topic)

  • continue with Homosaurus mapping and begin GSSO mapping (more medical terms)

  • headings for Native Nations and peoples in California

  • LCSH projects

  • CritCat Reading Group

  • Need to recruit more

• Can IDTF work be given some visibility from Chancellor’s Office communication?

  • yes, group asked to write something up for inclusion in CSU Libraries website

Resource Sharing

• Want to continue Rapido refreshers

  • retooled to cover basics, esp. for new staff

• Open forum next week on NERS process